Something new and exciting

As an embroiderer using Marathon threads, I can honestly say that it's annoying to manually convert colour charts when I buy from designers. Why they don't include our fine thread, I don't know. Yesterday I was mentioning this to Michele so she decided to do something about it.

As of mid-April we'll be carrying a product called My Thread Box and what this program does is convert your thread colours from other thread brands to Marathon or any other brand but I ask you, why would you want to buy another brand when you have Marathon threads? (grin). I've been using Marathon Threads since I got my first embroidery machine some 5 years ago and I haven't looked back.

Needless to say that this just made my day! No more wasting my time to convert. A program will do all of that for me.

So if you're on the fence about buying Marathon embroidery threads because designers don't put our thread colours, worry no more, this software will help you out.

Linda

Tip on metallic thread

I thought I'd blog about "my" results when working with Marathon metallic threads. Are you experiencing thread breakage?

I got different results depending on which needle I was using for which project. Lately, I've been working with FSL (Free Standing Lace) and I decided to try it with metallics.. I have to say that I was a little apprehensive about it at first. Guess what, it worked! For the projects that I was working on, I found that I got better results with a bigger needle. I tried a metallic size 11 needle and got good results but I decided to test the same project with a size 12 needle as well as a size 14 (sharp needles) and I found that for my projects, I got better results with a size 14 needle. My choice of stabilizer was H2o Gone and it worked great. Now I'm totally addicted to FSL. If you're reading this and have some great sites for FSL, please drop us a line.

Once my project was done, I unhooped it and trimmed it and then ran it under warm water and the stabilizer disappeared almost like magic.

So if you're having thread breakage, my suggestion would be to change your needle to a bigger size and see what happens.

Make sure that your needle is not dull. We recommend changing your needle every 8 hours of sewing on regular sewing projects and after 100,000 stitches on machine embroidery projects.

If you're in the beginning stages of machine embroidery and looking for a great book on it, we recommend Creative Beginnings in Machine Embroidery by Patty Albin which we just happen have in stock. I've been embroidering for 4 years and I think this book is really good. In fact I just bought a copy for myself.

Linda

Hello Hello

We're very pleased to see that people are reading our blog! Keep your suggestions coming, we appreciate them.

We are reading all the comments. If you have any "tips" or projects that you'd like to share with us and would like to see them on our blog, please email us at mail@marathonthreadscanada.com

Michele and Linda

Welcome to our blog

Marathon Threads Canada has now joined blog land. Please come and visit us often as we'll be updating this site frequently.

This is where you'll find out what is going on at Marathon Threads Canada and perhaps even get to see pictures of the people you speak with when ordering, perhaps see pictures of when we attend shows or just what we're working on.

If you have a moment, please comment on our blog, just to let us know that someone is actually reading this.

Hope to see you soon in blog land.

Michele and Linda